Problems with Compressor 2

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thats my problem, any advice, im new to compressor but not final cut. Thank you

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93234
-DH

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Problem with compressor 2.01

Hallo everyone.
I've a great problem with compressor 2.01 and Final cut pro 5.04.
When I try to export a movie from final cut to compressor, all the two application crash.
All is regular when I export the movie with Quick time.
This happens to me for the first time I used Final cut.
The second problem is that when I try to reinstall compressor from the original CD, compressor is gray and not black.
I've used yet every possibilities also with Disk warrior applcation without succes
Please help me. Thank you

You need to update to Compressor 2.3.1 for Leopard compatibility.
Use Software Update, under the Apple menu item at top left of your screen, or look here: http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/finalcutpro/download/

Are the problems with Compressor's encoding fixed yet?

Sorry for the slightly vague title but I only use compressor once a year basically, which is after the production of a Christmas show I produce. Last year I upgraded ot Final Cut Studio to do the DVD and got caught out. I encoded using what I thought was the best setting (2 pass variable bit rate) and got jittery encoding. After investigating on this very forum, I found lots of comments about known problems with Compressor's encoding in this setting and ended up re encoding using one pass which was "ok".
I'd rather do the best job I can so the basic question is, "is it fixed yet". Keeping in mind I understand about altering settings so that I can get the time I need onto one disc (110 minutes unfortunately!) What setting will offer me the best possible picture quality, regardless of encoding time, with compressor? Many, many thaks for any advice you regular user can offer!!
Happy Christmas in advance, Gareth

Gareth:
According what was posted in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=760041&tstart=15
by Brian a lot of problems must be solved using the last 2.3 version.
Hope it helps !
Alberto

I have FCP 6 and I've had nothing but problems with Compressor and DVD studio, I would just like to scrap 6 and move on to 10but use my same laptop, which is still running OSX 10.5.8, What do I need to do? to make this happen?

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abelvideo wrote:
..... I finally did find involved clicking and dragging folders and files one by one to try it fix it from deep into utlity folders and such that I just gave up and been working with what I got, it really *****
If you have difficulties fixing problems with software that is acting up I would suggest that you do a clean install of your OS and the software. That is, after backing up your files, of course.
abelvideo wrote:
I am looking to go to a editing software that isn't Apple but will operate on a mac and has custum DVD capabilities included. But we'll see, best regards and thank you for your time.
Adobe CS is probably what you are looking for. But I'd go erase & install before throwing the towel.

Old problem with compressor

Hi There,
I am using a somewhat older version of FCP (5.0.4)
A few years ago I remeber having some trouble with the compressor.
It could not find the file's or something like that.
Someone in this forum helped me to solve the problem.
If I remeber well something had to be changed in prefernces.
The forum does not contain this old questions anymore, I regret to say.
The problem now is that after editing in FCP and exporting to the Compressor it gives a warning
"error trying to open source media file"
After clicking the ok button nothing happens.
Does anyone have a clue?
Thanks in advance
Thijs

I thought it had something to do with misplacing the original files but alas

Pixelation Problem with Compressor

Not long ago a friend helped me create a showreel in Final Cut Pro, which I then compressed in Compressor for the web. I was able to get the file to a reasonable size and still look decent. I used an mpeg-4 profile, and also resized and cropped the video. The final video was about 20 megs. We just updated the video and although I'm using the same profile I used previously, now the video is appearing very pixelated. An example of how it looks in the preview window, as well as how the final exported video looks is here:
homepage.mac.com/thegoblincleaver/.Public/screengrab.jpg
I have tried turning up the bitrate to insane proportions, fiddled with the pixel shape, etc. My friend is just exporting the master as DV PAL. I'm bringing that video into compressor and even when I change the settings I get a similar pixelated effect.
Here is the profile I'm using if it might help someone advise me:
homepage.mac.com/thegoblincleaver/.Public/webreel.setting
The previous video that was successfully outputed from Compressor is here:
www.brettbunting.com/showreel
Oddly, if I simply export this video from quicktime pro, I dont have this issue. However, Quicktime doesn't really give me all the options that I am using in compressor...
Sorry that was so long-winded, I am really just at a loss for how to continue. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brett

Looks to me like we have the same problem.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1401418&stqc=true
Have you found a solution yet by any chance?

Problem with Compressor

I am trying to submit a film for compressor.
Ive had two problems. Firstly although I selected my external hard drive as the source, it seems to be writing information to my internal hard drive.
So i abandoned that, i dont have anough internal memory to sore the any tens of gigs this projec takes.
Having abandoned the first try I now see Compressor saying "Unable to Submit to Queue - Please restart your computeer or verufiy your Compression Installaions Is Correct"
Any help would be much appreciated.

Well, if you're talking about FPCX, there are a couple of choices that can make a difference.
In Preferences, Import>Organizing you have a choice of copying to Events folder or not. I don't because I want to have control over the process – when what and where copies are made. (If you import from a camera, however, it will automatically make copies…which is desirable). So we're really talking about whether to copy files already on your HD. (I don't use FCPX to import from the camera, but that's just me holding on to some legacy work flow.)
Under Transcode, you have the choice to create optimized (Pro Res) or Proxy (Pro Res Proxy). I prefer to leave those unchecked because I'm often going to use only a small fraction of what I import and I don't want to create a lot of big files that I'm later going to have to prune. After I figure out roughly what I need then I do any transcoding from the Events browser.
You also have these Organizing/Transcoding choices when you create a new event; when you do, a dialogue box pops up.
Something else to pay attention to is your render files…which may or may not be on your boot drive. They can accumulate rapidly butcan be managed either from within FCPX or in the finder.
Russ

Having problem with compressor

hey guys i need some help, i have final cut studio 2, everything works fine except compressor, it won't launch or open, i dont want to reinstall all of my FCP2, i have some file that i need in motion and in FCP is there anyway to help me guys?

Try uninstalling and reinstalling Compressor & Qmaster:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302845
or
http://www.scottsimmons.tv/blog/2008/01/11/compressor-hatred-resolved/

Quality Issues with Compressor 2.0.1

Has anyone had any contact with Apple engineers about the problems folks are having with macro-blocking artifacts with Compressor since 2.x appeared?
Is Apple aware of this serious step-back in reliability and quality?
We too are experiencing this and it is very troublesome. Really takes the fun out of doing this type of work.
I would like hear from those who have never had the problem or who had the problem and resolved without reverting to older versions.
I think the one common factor among those experiencing the problem is that we are all working in DV25 (NTSC or PAL).
Comments?
thanks,
MACK

Jamie, here is a link to a more detailed discussion on the problem with Compressor's (v2) 2-pass MPEG2 VBR encodings.
Waymen, "MPEG-2 conversion issues" #8, 06:15pm Sep 13, 2005 CDT
The problem is somewhat random and can be hard to reproduce or detect. However, since it usually (always?) occurs in sequences that contain at least some difficult to compress material it's possible that very clean video sources will suffer less from this defect (since they won't be "wasting" bits to encode noise or image shortcomings that were already present in the original source).
Some users have complained about poor fades to black, but probably the worst example I've seen was a slow cross-fade between two clips that both contained a fair amount of motion. In the latter case, Compressor 1.2.1 handled the transition much better even when using the same bit rate and quality settings. However, when Compressor 2 fails the image degenerates into some fairly large, very low detail compression blocks for maybe one or two frames. Then it recovers, everything will look fine until you see another random occurrence of the problem. You may only see two bad frames out of several hundred, but when you see it you know immediately that something is wrong.
I doubt that this is a configuration problem or something that is hardware specific since I've been able to duplicate the exact same failure on two systems that had absolutely nothing in common as far as installation or software setup. The only commonality was the source video clip (which looks fine) and Compressor 2. However, this same clip looks fine when encoded with Compressor 1.2.1.
Note, also, that I'm using only Compressor 2 presets on Compressor 2, this is not the problem caused by using "old" presets imported from Compressor 1.X.
Anyway, I've already sent Apple a bug report, so there is little that I can do at this point other than to hope for a fix from Apple. That and restricting myself to one-pass encodings (as discussed in my earlier post).

Trouble with Compressor/Batch

I had a huge problem with Compressor yesterday. When setting up a batch encode I have trouble getting back to FCP (6.05) to get my files to complete my batch. I use a shortcut button from my button list as opposed to file>export to when I do this most times I will end up with a spinning ball and when I try force quitting it says FCP is not responding. I have a Quad 2.8 .
Thanks
Jeff

formats?
filters?
encoding preset?
trashed prefs?

Biggest beef with Compressor!

I have a couple of beefs with compressor, mostly to do with super high-contrasted footage, but my biggest one is probably also the most simple to solve. This is kind of hard to explain, so I will just give an example:
1. Drop a source file in so that it shows up in the batch.
2. Click on the inspector window so that it is brough to the front.
3. NOW, click on the 'Settings' pull-down for that piece of source. NOTHING. Why is that I must select the window by NOT clicking on the pull-down, and THEN I have to click on the pull-down? What is up with this annoying, but simple bug? No other app works this way...
Grumble grumble....

I was having problems with Compressor failing during launch for about 4 weeks. New Mac Pro (8 core), Apple store supported migration from the G5...all good except for Compressor. Crashing during launch everytime.
Followed the threads here but no solution would work. Including the Apple-suggested step by step. Multiple app deletes and fresh installs, but still no luck.
Then, I finally broke down and took my machine to a ProCare appt. and demanded that they have someone there who knew a thing or two. Well lucky me...
We narrowed it down to the Frameworks folder in Libary/Preferences under QMaster.
Here's a thought. During re-install, when it prompts you whether or not you plan to use your machine on a network to share rendering load, say NO. Unless this is really important to you, just say NO. I found that once I deleted the QMaster/Preferences/Frameworks file in my library, I was good to go. In fact, didn't even need QMaster all-together. Unless perhaps I dont' know I need it that is...
For now, I'm back to work and my clients are getting their media.
Many thanks to the Genius at Barton Creek, Austin, TX!

Trying to get my fcp project to burn to dvd at the highest quality? Ive used compressor and then tried to put it in dvdsp put its not working. I am having problems with the audio or when i burn it , i cant play the dvd? any help would be appreciated

Ive used compressor and then tried to put it in dvdsp put its not working. I am having problems with the audio or when i burn it , i cant play the dvd? any help would be appreciated

I suspect you are attempting to burn an HD DVD, which will not play on a DVD player...
But if you provide more details such as the settings you are applying in Compressor, then we would be able to provide you more accurate information.
How are you adding the files to Compressor?
In FCP, what are your footage properties (command-9) and sequence settings (command-0)

Im having problem with the dvd quality, I'm using compressor to convert the video fils from apple prores to mpeg2 .It doesn't matter how long my video is even if its just 5 minutes I'm getting cut edges in the video , does anyone have any idea ?

Im having a problem with the dvd quality, I'm using compressor to convert the video fils from apple prores to mpeg2 .It doesn't matter how long my video is even if its just 5 minutes I'm getting cut edges/lines in the video specialy if i have titles it comes up really bad , I took the same video to a friend of mine who have PC and he uses Encore , did the encoding there and it was just fine no problems! BTW I tried using doferent setings in compressor from CBR and VBR I even pushed up the setings to 8 or 9 BR and still no luck !
does anyone have any idea ?
Thanks in advence ...

Let's focus attention on just the Sony. (What model and what resolution are you shooting?)
For now, I'll assume you're shooting 1080i.
Take a representaive clip into a new sequence. Add a title.
In your sequence, make sure field dominance is set to Upper.
Set render settings to Pro Res 422.
After rendering, export QT self contained.
Import into Compressor (I'm now referring to v3.5).
Select the 90 minute Best quality DVD preset.
Open frame controls and turn on (click the gear icon). Set Resize filter to Best.
Submit burn and check quality on TV.
Good luck.

Problems with ac3-audio not encoded in apple's compressor

Hi everyone,
I'm working with DVD Studio Pro 4.0 and when encoding audio with the compressor into ac3, there were hardly any problems.
Now I have to get along with external ac3-files, not encoded with compressor. Settings, format etc. are identical to the compressor-created files; despite of these similar settings, I now expericene a very low sound (about 3x lower), not comparable to the volume of the compressor encoded files.
Has anyone an idea on this subject?
Thanks.
Greetz
Power Mac G5 Dualcore2Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

You might get better responses in the DVD Studio Pro or Compressor forum?

Compressor problems with software update

Software update has downloaded and installed once or more every day since last week thursday!
nothing works, the software update installs 2.01 compressor and QTmaster over and over again.
DVD Studio Pro is a mess...
How can I make software update wasting my time and bandwidth?
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I was experiencing this same problem with the 3.02 update. It look like I was finally able to resolve it by manually downloading the compressor update and installing it instead of using software update. I only made the change today, but so far software update seems to recognize that I'm up-to-date.

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